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Major League Baseball legend Pete Rose has died. Jeffrey Lenkov, the baseball legend’s attorney, confirmed Rose’s death to Rolling Stone Monday, coincidentally the last night of the 2024 MLB regular season. Rose was 83.

The Clark County Medical Examiner’s Office also confirmed the news to Rolling Stone, adding that “his cause of death was determined as Hypertensive and Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease with a significant condition of Diabetes Mellitus. The manner of death was natural.”

Rose, whose nickname was “Charlie Hustle,” spent 23 years in the MLB, playing a total of 3,562 games,...

One of the newer arrivals in the world of online sports betting is making a wager of its own.

Disney’s ESPN is no stranger to the world of gambling. The sports-media giant has aired a show devoted to sports odds and in the past struck partnerships with both Caesars Entertainment and DraftKings that helped it offer its subscribers links to betting. Now it’s ready to put its own name behind the parlays.

“What our competitors can’t touch is what we are going to offer, which is integrating with ESPN content,” says Aaron Laberge, the chief technology officer of Penn Entertainment, and the former Cto for ESPN and Disney Entertainment.

ESPN and Penn struck a landmark deal in August of last year that will have the latter pay the Disney sports-media giant $1.5 billion in cash over 10 years, and grant it $500 million of warrants to purchase approximately 31.8 million common shares of Penn.

Pat McAfee, one of ESPN’s toughest talkers, is, as things turn out, surprisingly tender-hearted.

The one-time Indianapolis Colts team member, who has also taken to the ring to fight in the WWE, surprised many a grizzled sports-media journalist Wednesday in Bristol, Conn., by alternatively lashing out at his critics (some of them in the room) and asking the audience to cut his freewheeling program, “The Pat McAfee Show” a little slack.

“I understand that you may have a lot of reasons to potentially hate me,” McAfee said while holding forth Wednesday at the headquarters of the Disney-backed sports-media giant. “I think they’re misguided. I would appreciate if you would give me and my guys a chance. I think we’re helping out sports media as a whole in the future. I think we’re going to get some things wrong and we apologize for that.” Sitting alongside ESPN...

Mike Greenberg has been named host of ESPN’s Sunday NFL Countdown.

Greenberg currently hosts ESPN’s morning show, Get Up, and the Greeny radio show. He previously hosted NBA Countdown, SportsCenter and the Mike & Mike radio show with Mike Golic.

He takes over the host role from Sam Ponder, who was reportedly fired last week, alongside football analyst Robert Griffin III. The decision to part ways with the two was described as being part of a cost-cutting move.

Greenberg will join returning analysts Super Bowl Champions Tedy Bruschi and Rex Ryan, Pro Football Hall of Famer Randy Moss, three-time Pro Bowl quarterback Alex Smit on ESPN’s Sunday NFL Countdown.

ESPN’s senior NFL Insider Adam Schefter will return, as will Jeff Darlington, Dan Graziano, Kimberley A. Martin, Sal Paolantonio, Lindsey Thiry and sports betting analyst Erin Dolan.

Greenberg will be the fourth ever host of the program. He...

NBA Hall of Famer Jerry West died on Wednesday morning at the age of 86.

The Los Angeles Clippers, for whom West had been working as a consultant, announced his passing, saying, “the personification of basketball excellence and a friend to all who knew him, passed away peacefully this morning at the age of 86. His wife, Karen, was by his side.”

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Each channel covering the draft will focus on different aspects of player development, and fans can choose the coverage style that suits them best.

The 2024 NFL Draft in Detroit, Michigan will see more than 250 college football players realize their dream of playing on the biggest stage in the world. All 32 NFL teams will walk away from this weekend with a new infusion of talent, and fans can watch it all live on their choice of network. ABC, ESPN, and NFL Network will each cover each of the draft’s seven rounds this year, and each will cover draft prospects from their own unique perspective. Fans can pick and choose which network will offer them the coverage they want, and The Streamable will let you know what you’ll see on each channel and how to stream the draft on each.

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One NFL insider voice that ESPN viewers will not be listening to as the new season kicks off is Chris Mortensen as the football analyst has announced his retirement from the network.

Mortensen had quietly quit the sports network earlier this year and ahead of the start of the NFL season has made it public to all of his fans.

“Excited about another season but it’s time to reveal after my 33rd NFL draft in April, I made a decision to step away from ESPN and focus on my health, family and faith,” he shared on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.

Luckily for fans who have been following his career for 33 years, he’s still going to be giving his hot takes on the NFL.

“The gratitude and humility is overwhelming. It’s not a classic retirement. I’ll still be here talking ball. It’s just time.

Hey, TV fans. We're back in action to let you know what the major networks: ABC, Fox, NBC and CBS will be airing in their primtime line ups tonight, June 12, 2023. Let's do it. ABC is airing a Live, NBC Countdown show and a 2023 NBA Finals game. ABC's official description for the Live NBA Countdown show reads like this: "Bold opinions, discussion and debate centered on the top storylines from around the league. Mike Greenberg hosts this pregame show with analysts Stepen A. Smith, Jalen Rose and Michael Wilbon." It's scheduled to air from 7pm to 7:30pm central standard time.

Hey, TV fans. Happy Friday. We're back to let you know what will be airing tonight, June 9, 2023 on the primetime schedule for the major TV networks: NBC, CBS, ABC and Fox. Let's get to it. ABC is airing a Live NBA countdown show and Live 2023 NBA Finals Basketball Game. ABC's official description for the Live NBA Countdown show reads like this: "Bold opinions, discussion and debate centered on the top storylines from around the league. Mike Greenberg hosts this pregame show with analysts Stepen A. Smith, Jalen Rose and Michael Wilbon." It's airing from 7pm to 7:30pm central standard time.

Hey, TV fans. We're back with the primetime TV schedule listings for tonight, June 7, 2023. These listings are for the major networks: Fox, NBC, ABC and CBS. Let's get into it. ABC is airing a Live NBA Countdown show and NBA Finals game ABC's official description for the new, Live NBA Countdown show reads like this, "Bold opinions, discussion and debate centered on the top storylines from around the league. Mike Greenberg hosts this pregame show with analysts Stepen A. Smith, Jalen Rose and Michael Wilbon." It's airing from 7pm to 7:30pm central standard time.

Hey, TV fans. We're back in action to let you know what is airing on the primetime schedules tonight, June 1, 2023 for the major networks: Fox, NBC, ABC and CBS. Let's get into it. ABC is airing a Live NBA Countdown show. ABC's official description for it reads like this, "Bold opinions, discussion and debate centered on the top storylines from around the league. Mike Greenberg hosts this pregame show with analysts Stepen A. Smith, Jalen Rose and Michael Wilbon." It's airing from 7 pm to 7:30pm central standard time. 2023 NBA Finals. Miami Heat at Denver Nuggets Live. ABC's description for it: "Nikola Joki? and the Nuggets host Jimmy Butler's Heat for Game 1 of the NBA Finals. Denver topped the Western Conference with a 53-29 record in the regular season before rolling through Minnesota, Phoenix and the Los Angeles Lakers in the postseason." It's airing from 7:30 pm to 10 pm central standard time.

Hey, NBA fans. Tonight, is a big night. We're on here to let you know that ABC going to be providing exclusive, Live coverage of the very first game 1 for the 2023 NBA Finals featuring the Miami Heat versus the Denver Nuggets tonight, June 1, 2023. Oh, yeah, guys. It's going down tonight, and we've got a brief preview for tonight's festivities. According to the TV guide listings, ABC is going to air a Live, NBA countdown show 30 minutes before the actual game starts. This will air in the 7 pm central standard time slot. It will feature some heavy, pre-commentary discussions for the match up between these two teams and so on and so forth. ABC's official description for this Live NBA Countdown show reads like this, "NBA Countdown Live. Bold opinions, discussion and debate centered on the top storylines from around the league. Mike Greenberg hosts this pregame show with analysts Stepen A.

The 2023 NFL season is still months away, but fans can get a taste of the excitement this weekend when the league holds its annual draft from April 27-29. Teams will pick their favorite college prospects, and gurus will offer instant analysis based on team fit and the production of the players in question. It’s one of the most exciting weekends in the NFL calendar, and you can watch it with a Subscription to Hulu Live TV.

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It’s the 2023 NFL Draft, and Carolina Panthers have the first pick as NFL teams stock up on rookies in Kansas City April 27-29, with Round 1 airing in primetime Thursday. Alabama’s Bryce Young and Will Anderson Jr., Ohio State’s Paris Johnson Jr. and C.J. Stroud, Georgia’s Jalen Carter and Illinois’ Devon Witherspoon are expected to be taken early in the first round. ABC, ESPN, ESPN2 and NFL Network combine to televise all seven rounds live. Mel Kiper Jr. works his 40th NFL Draft for ESPN, joined by Booger McFarland and Louis Riddick on Thursday and Friday night. Mike Greenberg hosts ESPN’s telecast for the third consecutive year, while Rece Davis hosts the story-driven telecast on ABC. NFL Network’s coverage features anchor Rich Eisen, draft expert Daniel Jeremiah, CBS analyst Charles Davis, Fox Sports college football analyst Joel Klatt, Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback Kurt Warner...

ESPN‘s Mike Greenberg, who hosts the shows Get Up and NBA Countdown, is slowly recovering after undergoing a heart procedure on Monday, March 20. His wife, writer Stacy Greenberg, provided a health update for fans on Thursday (March 23), tweeting, “For those asking: Greeny had a cardiac ablation on Monday. Recovery is slow, he has to do nothing and believe me….he’s not great at that!” “We both really, really appreciate all the nice messages,” she added. For those asking: Greeny had a cardiac ablation on Monday. Recovery is slow, he has to do nothing and believe me….he’s not great at that! We both really, really appreciate all the nice messages. — StacyGSGreenberg (@StacyGSG) March 23, 2023 According to the Mayo Clinic, cardiac ablation is a procedure to treat an irregular heartbeat typically performed by running catheters through veins and arteries but occasionally done during surgery. Earlier in the week, Stacy...

A man comes to, confused about why he’s in a dumpster with a gun on CBS’s The Equalizer season three episode 12. Directed by Tamika Miller from a script by Joe Gazzam, “Lost and Found” is set to air on Sunday, March 19, 2023 at 8pm Et/Pt.

Queen Latifah leads the cast as Robyn McCall. Season three also stars Tory Kittles as Detective Marcus Dante, Adam Goldberg as Harry Keshegian, Liza Lapira as Melody “Mel” Bayani, and Laya DeLeon Hayes as Delilah. Lorraine Toussaint returns as Viola “Vi” Marsette. Brett Dalton, Gabriel Sloyer, Chris Vance, and Stephen Bishop recur.

Corey Cott guest stars.

“Lost and Found” Plot: When a man claiming to have lost his memory wakes up behind a dumpster with a gun in his hand, McCall and the team follow a trail of clues to help uncover his whereabouts the night before.

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The hunt is on for a creep committing antisemitic crimes on CBS’s The Equalizer season three episode 11. Directed by Chris Fisher from a script by Ora Yashar and Adam Glass, episode 11 – “Never Again” – will air on Sunday, March 12, 2023 at 8pm Et/Pt.

Queen Latifah leads the cast as Robyn McCall. Season three also stars Tory Kittles as Detective Marcus Dante, Adam Goldberg as Harry Keshegian, Liza Lapira as Melody “Mel” Bayani, and Laya DeLeon Hayes as Delilah. Lorraine Toussaint returns as Viola “Vi” Marsette. Brett Dalton, Gabriel Sloyer, Chris Vance, and Stephen Bishop recur.

“Never Again” Plot: After a string of antisemitic hate crimes terrorizes a local community, Harry reconnects with his Jewish faith as he leads the team in finding the culprit before they attack again. Also, McCall must calculate what extremes she will go to in order to win custody of Delilah.

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A desperate mother makes a horrible choice in order to save her daughter on CBS’s The Equalizer season three episode 10, “Do No Harm.” Directed by Ron Fortunato from a script by Ashley Charbonnet and Kim Rome, episode 10 will air on Sunday, March 5, 2023 at 8pm Et/Pt.

Queen Latifah leads the cast as Robyn McCall. Season three also stars Tory Kittles as Detective Marcus Dante, Adam Goldberg as Harry Keshegian, Liza Lapira as Melody “Mel” Bayani, and Laya DeLeon Hayes as Delilah. Lorraine Toussaint returns as Viola “Vi” Marsette. Brett Dalton, Gabriel Sloyer, Chris Vance, and Stephen Bishop recur.

“Do No Harm” Plot: When the mother of a patient dying of a rare brain disease holds a hospital hostage in an attempt to get her daughter a lifesaving surgery, McCall races to resolve the situation peacefully while dealing with pushback from government forces.

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Berto Colon (Power Book II: Ghost) guest stars as a conman who’s in McCall’s crosshairs on CBS’s The Equalizer season three episode nine. Directed by Paul Holahan from a script by Chris Derrick, episode nine – “Second Chance” – will air on Sunday, February 26, 2023 at 8pm Et/Pt.

Queen Latifah leads the cast as Robyn McCall. Season three also stars Tory Kittles as Detective Marcus Dante, Adam Goldberg as Harry Keshegian, Liza Lapira as Melody “Mel” Bayani, and Laya DeLeon Hayes as Delilah. Lorraine Toussaint returns as Viola “Vi” Marsette. Brett Dalton, Gabriel Sloyer, Chris Vance, and Stephen Bishop recur.

“Second Chance” Plot: McCall and Dante’s relationship is tested when a conman (Colon) the NYPD has been building a years-long case against kidnaps a relative of McCall’s client and forces him to assist in a heist in order to save them.

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Family comes first in the winter premiere of The Equalizer. In this exclusive sneak peek from “He Ain’t Heavy,” a frantic Mel (Liza Lapira) opens up to Harry (Adam Goldberg) about her brother Edison’s (Travis Salter) kidnapping. The episode airs Sunday, Feb. 19 on CBS.

Harry is worried about Mel in the next episode of ‘The Equalizer’ on CBS

The last time we saw Mel, she’d just gotten a lead on the whereabouts of her missing brother. In “He Ain’t Heavy,” she’s racing against the clock to save him. But she’s so intent on finding Edison that she neglected to check in with Harry, who’s more than a little freaked out that he hasn’t been able to find his wife.

“Where have you been all night? I was worried sick,” he says as he walks into the bar, where Mel is pouring herself a much-needed drink.

Tory Kittles as Detective Marcus Dante and Queen Latifah as Robyn McCall in ‘The Equalizer’ season 3 episode 9

It will be nearly three months between new episodes when CBS’s The Equalizer finally returns to the network’s primetime schedule with season three episode eight. The first new episode since November 27th, episode eight will find the action striking close to home for Mel.

Directed by John Terlesky from a script by Melissa R. Byer and Treena Hancock, “He Ain’t Heavy” will air on Sunday, February 19, 2023 at 8pm Et/Pt.

Queen Latifah leads the cast as Robyn McCall. Season three also stars Tory Kittles as Detective Marcus Dante, Adam Goldberg as Harry Keshegian, Liza Lapira as Melody “Mel” Bayani, and Laya DeLeon Hayes as Delilah. Lorraine Toussaint returns as Viola “Vi” Marsette. Brett Dalton, Gabriel Sloyer, Chris Vance, and Stephen Bishop recur.

“He Ain’t Heavy” Plot: Mel engages in...

Al Roker is missing out on another holiday tradition as the Today co-host and weatherman continues to recover following the discovery of blood clots in his leg and lungs. He’ll forgo participating in this year’s Christmas in Rockefeller Center tree lighting ceremony as he recoups with family at home. The medical challenge arose earlier this November and landed Roker in the hospital for an extended period of time, preventing him from co-hosting NBC’s presentation of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, which was helmed instead by Savannah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb in his absence. (Credit: Michael Greenberg/NBC) According to NBC’s listing for the tree-lighting ceremony, the event will see Mario Lopez step in for Roker as he co-hosts the event alongside Guthrie, Kotb, and Craig Melvin. The special airing for two hours on Wednesday, November 30 will feature an all-star lineup of performers and guests including Jimmie Allen,...

Grammy Award winner Kelly Rowland guest stars on CBS’s The Equalizer season three episode seven, “Paradise Lost.” Episode seven, the fall finale, will air on Sunday, November 27, 2022 at 8pm Et/Pt.

Queen Latifah leads the cast as Robyn McCall. Season three also stars Tory Kittles as Detective Marcus Dante, Adam Goldberg as Harry Keshegian, Liza Lapira as Melody “Mel” Bayani, and Laya DeLeon Hayes as Delilah. Lorraine Toussaint returns as Viola “Vi” Marsette. Brett Dalton, Gabriel Sloyer, Chris Vance, and Stephen Bishop recur.

“Paradise Lost” Plot: After Misty (Rowland), a superstar singer deciding to retire, receives a terrifying fan letter, her head of security hires McCall to track down the culprit.

Episode seven guest stars include Sullivan Jones, Frank Whaley, Nikki Renee Daniels, Jaelin Taylor, and Jordon Alexander.

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McCall finds herself in the hot seat on CBS’s The Equalizer season three episode six, “A Time to Kill.” Directed by Chris Fisher from a script by Melissa R. Byer and Treena Hancock, episode six will air on Sunday, November 20, 2022 at 8:30pm Et/Pt.

Queen Latifah leads the cast as Robyn McCall. Season three also stars Tory Kittles as Detective Marcus Dante, Adam Goldberg as Harry Keshegian, Liza Lapira as Melody “Mel” Bayani, and Laya DeLeon Hayes as Delilah. Lorraine Toussaint returns as Viola “Vi” Marsette. Brett Dalton, Gabriel Sloyer, Chris Vance, and Stephen Bishop recur.

Eddie McGee, Lee Aaron Rosen, Natalie Roy, Tony Naumovski, and Georgi James guest star.

“A Time to Kill” Plot: After a teen girl dies from fentanyl-laced pills, a vigilante goes on a killing spree and McCall becomes a suspect.

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CBS’s The Equalizer will return from a three-week break with season three episode five, “Blowback.” Directed by Cheryl Dunye from a script by Rob Hanning, episode five will air on Sunday, November 13, 2022 at 8pm Et/Pt.

Queen Latifah leads the cast as Robyn McCall. Season three also stars Tory Kittles as Detective Marcus Dante, Adam Goldberg as Harry Keshegian, Liza Lapira as Melody “Mel” Bayani, and Laya DeLeon Hayes as Delilah. Lorraine Toussaint returns as Viola “Vi” Marsette. Brett Dalton, Gabriel Sloyer, Chris Vance, and Stephen Bishop recur.

Valerie Pettiford, Danny Johnson, Malik Yoba, Destin Khari, Tyler Williams, and Robbie Sublett guest star.

“Blowback” Plot: When a smuggler being detained by the CIA must be transferred quickly to a secure debriefing site, McCall works with Carter Griffin to ensure he arrives unharmed. Also, Dante deals with the possibility of his father being released from prison.

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Grammy Award-winner Big Daddy Kane guest stars as the founder of a motorcycle club on CBS’s The Equalizer season three episode four, “One Percenters.” Directed by Benny Boom from a script by Adam Glass, episode four will air on Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 8pm Et/Pt.

Queen Latifah leads the cast as Robyn McCall. Season three also stars Tory Kittles as Detective Marcus Dante, Adam Goldberg as Harry Keshegian, Liza Lapira as Melody “Mel” Bayani, and Laya DeLeon Hayes as Delilah. Lorraine Toussaint returns as Viola “Vi” Marsette. Brett Dalton, Gabriel Sloyer, Chris Vance, and Stephen Bishop recur.

Charles Brice, Ezra Knight, Brittany Adebumola, Brian Hutchison, Anna Holbrook, and Tom Patterson guest star.

“One Percenters” Plot: A local motorcycle club seeks McCall and the team’s help in keeping a member out of prison by proving the illegal guns found in his van were planted. Meanwhile, Delilah’s father, Miles,...

On Monday, ESPN hosts Mike Greenberg and Stephen A. Smith might be called for going offsides.

With coverage expected to center on this Sunday’s NFC match-up between the Dallas Cowboys and Philadelphia Eagles, hosts and analysts from two of ESPN’s popular morning programs, “Get Up” and “First Take” will cross lines, so to speak, and appear across both shows’ time slots. Smith, Greenberg, Michael Irvin, Molly Qerim, Rex Ryan, Dan Orlovsky and more will make appearances across the two shows’ four hours and analyze weekend NFL play as well as discuss a game between the Denver Broncos and Los Angeles Chargers schedule for ESPN’s “Monday Night Football.”

“The dynamic will be memorable, if not unpredictable,” says David Roberts, ESPN’s head of NBA and studio production, who oversees the morning programs, in an interview.

ESPN at present doesn’t appear to have plans to make the cross-over event a regular thing,...

A ghost is named as a potential suspect, plus Gloria Reuben guest stars on CBS’s The Equalizer season three episode three. Directed by Chris Fisher from a script by Kim Rome, episode three – “Better Off Dead” – will air on Sunday, October 16, 2022 at 8:30pm Et/Pt.

Queen Latifah leads the cast as Robyn McCall. Season three also stars Tory Kittles as Detective Marcus Dante, Adam Goldberg as Harry Keshegian, Liza Lapira as Melody “Mel” Bayani, and Laya DeLeon Hayes as Delilah. Lorraine Toussaint returns as Viola “Vi” Marsette. Brett Dalton, Gabriel Sloyer, Chris Vance, and Stephen Bishop recur.

“Better Off Dead” Plot: When a widowed single mother claims her dead husband is attempting to kill her from beyond the grave, McCall and the team help uncover the truth. Gloria Reuben guest stars as Trish, a recently widowed gallerist who rekindles a romantic relationship with Aunt Vi.

Elizabeth Stanley, Rebecca Brooksher,...

A daughter’s desperate search for her missing father sets the team in motion on CBS’s The Equalizer season three episode two. Directed by Randy Zisk from a script by Joe Gazzam, episode two – “Where There’s Smoke” – airs on Sunday, October 9, 2022 at 8pm Et/Pt.

Queen Latifah leads the cast as Robyn McCall. Season three also stars Tory Kittles as Detective Marcus Dante, Adam Goldberg as Harry Keshegian, Liza Lapira as Melody “Mel” Bayani, and Laya DeLeon Hayes as Delilah. Lorraine Toussaint returns as Viola “Vi” Marsette. Brett Dalton, Gabriel Sloyer, Chris Vance, and Stephen Bishop recur.

“Where There’s Smoke” Plot: The team helps an Nyfd firefighter’s daughter when her father suddenly goes missing. Also, Aunt Vi and Delilah continue to cope after McCall’s abduction.

Chance Kelly, Brett Diggs, Riley Cooper, Michael Emery, and Michel Vidal guest star.

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Amanda Warren (NCIS: New Orleans) and Emmy Award-winner Jimmy Smits (LA Law) star in CBS’s new police drama East New York premiering on October 2, 2022. The new drama comes from the executive producers of NYPD Blue and focuses on the 74th Precinct in East New York. Season one episode one, directed by Mike Robin from a script by William Finkelstein and Mike Flynn, will air at 9:30pm Et/Pt.

The series moves to its regular Sundays at 9pm timeslot on October 9th.

Amanda Warren stars as Deputy Inspector Regina Haywood, Jimmy Smits plays Chief John Suarez, Ruben Santiago-Hudson is Officer Marvin Sandeford, and Kevin Rankin plays Detective Tommy Killian. The season one cast also includes Richard Kind as Captain Stan Yenko, Elizabeth Rodriguez as Detective Crystal Morales, Olivia Luccardi as Officer Brandy Quinlan, and Lavel Schley as Officer Andre Bentley.

Episode one features guest stars Darien Sills-Evans, C.S. Lee,...

Law & Order: Svu fans were given quite the shock when it was revealed star Kelli Giddish would be ending her run as Detective Amanda Rollins in the forthcoming season of the Dick Wolf procedural. While Giddish addressed her exit directly with fans via social media, writing on Instagram, “I wanted to address the chatter I’ve seen online and let everyone know that this will, indeed, be my last season on Law & Order: Svu. Playing Rollins has been one of the greatest joys and privileges of my life. I’ve been so fortunate to be a part of the Law & Order family for the last 12 years. There is simply no other character on TV like Rollins.” (Credit: Michael Greenberg/NBC) It has since been revealed that Giddish’s exit was not of her choosing. According to Variety, Giddish’s departure was a decision that was a “call made from above.

Where is Robyn McCall (Queen Latifah)?! That’s the question for The Equalizer Season 3, and TV Insider has an exclusive first look at the search as well as where she is in the October 2 premiere. Season 2 ended with Robyn determined to take down Quinn (Chris Vance) after her mentor Bishop’s (Chris Noth) death. She was kidnapped in front of her daughter, Delilah (Laya DeLeon Hayes), and Aunt Vi (Lorraine Toussaint) — just as she was telling them she was involved in a very dangerous case. Michael Greenberg/CBS Now, in the first photos for the Season 3 premiere “Boom.,” which you can see above and below, Aunt Vi and Delilah turn to Detective Marcus Dante (Tory Kittles) for help finding Robyn — and they have a sketch of the person who took her. Remember, when Season 2 ended, he didn’t know Delilah’s mother is the vigilante he’s been working with.

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The WWE visited the World’s Greatest Arena Friday and continued to dominate the demo ratings, bringing in a healthy 0.6 on a relatively quiet evening.

This week’s WWE Friday Night SmackDown on Fox was held live at Madison Square Garden in New York, and saw the return of Brock Lesnar and a surprise visit from NBA superstar guard (and notorious Garden “villain”) Trae Young of the Atlanta Hawks.

The night was staged in front of a host of big time sports media, including Fox Sports’ Tom Rinaldi and Nick Wright, ESPN’s Mike Greenberg and Omar Raja, Meadowlark Media’s John Skipper and his partner, fashion entrepreneur Carmen Busquets[/link], Barstool Sports CEO Erika Nardini, producer Connor Schell, CAA’s Alan Gold[/link] and Matt Kramer, Roc Nation’s Lori York, and The Volume’s Logan Swaim.

Elsewhere, CBS offered Race Against Time: The CIA and 9/11, a special examining the agency...

This year in sports can’t be summed up with Top 10 lists and reels of game clips. So ESPN is going to try some different tactics.

ESPN plans a three-hour primetime event to bid farewell to year in sports that often involved events that took place well off the field. The show, “SportsCenter Presents: 2020 – Heroes, History and Hope,”will air as three one-hour programs and will kick off on Thursday, December 24 at 8 p.m. Jeremy Schaap and Lisa Salters. It will also be available on the ESPN mobile app

“We’ve done all different kinds of year-end specials. Some of them have been anthologies of our best stories commentary. Five or six different panel shows do ten best things, then worst things,” says Schaap, in an interview. “For obvious reasons, that wouldn’t have seemed an appropriate way to look back at a year with so much devastation and heartache...

The purge at ESPN continues, as longtime show host Dan Le Batard will leave the network in January.

The announcement of his departure said Le Batard “will be leaving ESPN early next year to pursue a new opportunity.” His ESPN radio show, The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz, will end Jan. 4. His hosting of the TV show Highly Questionable will finish the same day, but the show will remain on ESPN with what’s described as a “contributing team.”

“It was mutually agreed that it was best for both sides to move on to new opportunities and we worked together closely to make that possible,” said Norby Williamson, ESPN executive vice president and executive editor. “We thank Dan for his many years and contributions to ESPN and wish him all the best going forward.”

Le Batard has clashed in recent months with ESPN executives, and has complained that the...

Dan Le Batard, the popular and opinionated ESPN talk-show host, is walking away from the sports-media giant after working there in various capacities for nearly a decade.

Le Batard, who in mid-2019 openly challenged what had been ESPN’s policy not to address straight political matters, is leaving to pursue a new opportunity that neither party described. The last broadcast of his “The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz” on ESPN Radio will take place January 4, and will subsequently be replaced by Mike Greenberg’s new radio program, “Greeny.” Le Batard will host his last episode of the ESPN TV program “Highly Questionable” on the same day. ESPN said that program will continue to run as part of its regular lineup.

Le Batard is the latest in a string of prominent content executives and personnel to announce their departure from ESPN in recent days and comes as the Disney unit...

Dan Le Batard is leaving ESPN next month. His TV show, “Highly Questionable,” will continue on without him — or his dad.

“It was mutually agreed that it was best for both sides to move on to new opportunities and we worked together closely to make that possible,” said Norby Williamson, ESPN executive vice president and executive editor. “We thank Dan for his many years and contributions to ESPN and wish him all the best going forward.”

The final episode of “The Dan Le Batard Show With Stugotz” will broadcast on Monday, Jan. 4, with Le Batard’s final episode of “Highly Questionable” to air the same day.

The announcement of Le Batard’s exit comes a month after a clash with ESPN executives over a producer on “The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz,” Chris Cote, fell victim to the network’s latest round of layoffs. Le Batard called the move...

One of ESPN’s longtime faces is leaving the network. Trey Wingo, who hosted “SportsCenter” and the network’s NFL Draft coverage over a two-decade tenure, is exiting the network after his contract was not renewed.

The decision not to re-up Wingo’s contract came as part of ESPN’s massive job cuts, the New York Post reported earlier this month (the NY Post also reported back in September that Wingo was being let go). The host’s departure was not confirmed until today, which is also his last day at the network.

“I can barely remember a day which didn’t involve working side by side with this guy. @wingoz has been an incredible teammate & friend for more than 2 decades. On today, his last day at ESPN, I along with many others, salute him and wish him all the best in his next chapter,” said Seth Markman, ESPN’s...

Keyshawn Johnson, Jay Williams and Zubin Mehenti have a big radio debut on Monday, when they take over ESPN’s national morning slot. But their new jobs started in earnest on Wednesday.

The trio met in their studio at ESPN’s New York production facility for the first time, ready to test out their rapport. “I think if you took out the bumps in the road and you put that in the can, that could have been a show,” says Johnson.

It probably won’t be that easy.

Johnson, Williams and Mehenti are taking over a slot inhabited by only a few voices in the past two decades, with Mike Golic talking to A.M. sports fans between 1998 and 2020, joined by Mike Greenberg for 17 years. ESPN raised eyebrows in July when executives announced they were taking Golic off the program. Greenberg had departed to host ESPN’s morning-tv program “Get Up” in 2018. On Monday,...

Mike Greenberg must move fast as the host of ESPN’s “Get Up” each weekday morning. He’s hoping a new radio gig in the afternoons will give him the chance he needs to slow things down.

“On the TV show, we are just flying through stuff. The average interview on my show in the morning is – a long interview for us is six or seven minutes. On the radio, I could see us doing 15, 16, 17 minutes when the circumstances call for it,” says Greenberg, in an interview that is just a little longer than the time he wants for radio sessions. “It’s not every day that you have the right opportunities and the right subject matter to do that.”

Greenberg is making a return to familiar territory but hoping to blaze a different path when he gets there. His new program, “Greeny” – ESPN originally called it “The Mike Greenberg Show,...

Mike Golic will soon be without an ESPN Radio show, but he’s not out of 2020 ESPN gigs yet — assuming Covid-19 cooperates.

On Monday’s “Golic & Wingo” show, Golic, who is under contract with ESPN for the remainder of the year, said that he approached management and asked to return to calling college football games for the company’s cable channel. That’s where the former Notre Dame standout and NFL lineman got his post-football start in media.

ESPN gave the green light to that idea — should collegiate sports actually return amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

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“I asked ESPN for this season if I can — and maybe beyond, we’ll see — continue to call college games, and that’s what I’m going to do if there are college games,” Golic said this morning. “I’m gonna call college games,...

ESPN said it would cancel its flagship morning radio program, “Golic & WIngo,” while bringing Mike Greenberg, half of the team that helped the Disney sports-media giant carve a bigger business in the audio world, back to the medium as part of a reworking of its national lineup.

Greenberg, who spent 17 years with co-host Mike Golic on the morning radio program “Mike & Mike,” will keep his duties on the ESPN mid-morning TV program, “Get Up,” which he has helped anchor since the Spring of 2018. But he will also lead a new two-hour radio show that airs between noon and 2 p.m. weekdays. His former partner, Mike Golic will leave mornings along with Trey Wingo. The pair has hosted their program since November of 2017.

“Our new lineup will provide sports fans informative and engaging content throughout the week from hosts who all have radio experience,” said Norby Williamson, ESPN’s executive vice president and executive editor,...

Bryant Gumbel is exhausted.

He is taking time out from two days of video chats with a range of athletes, coaches, managers and observers that will help fill a decidedly non-traditional hour of “Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel,” the newsmagazine he has anchored on HBO since 1995. On June 23, the program will do away with its typical format and devote the entire program to examining how sports has been affected by both the coronavirus pandemic and the racial injustice that has spurred protests nationwide.

“I categorize it as trying to eat Jell-o with a knife and fork,” he says of his current pursuit, which is slated to include interviews with people ranging from Billie Jean King, Bubba Wallace and Bob Costas to Hank Aaron, Steve Kerr and Killer Mike. “What we are trying to make sense of is the fact that sports, like everything else on the planet, is in a unique moment.

ESPN is asking its top 100 commentators to take a pay cut while the network weathers the coronavirus pandemic, which is hit the sports channel particularly hard with the cancellation of virtually all live sporting events.

“We are asking about 100 of our commentators to join with our executives and take a temporary salary reduction. These are challenging times and we are all in this together,” the network said in a statement.

It is unclear which commentators were asked but ESPN’s highest-profile personalities include Stephen A. Smith, Mike Greenberg, Alex Rodriguez and Kirk Herbstreit. The salary reductions will be around 15% and are expected to last for three months, an individual with knowledge of the decision told TheWrap.

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“In their phone calls with talent and agents, ESPN executives appealed to the commentators and their agents...

ESPN, struggling to keep fresh programming on its schedule with live sports sidelined by the coronavirus pandemic, is asking some of its best-known personalities to take pay cuts.

“We are asking about 100 of our commentators to join with our executives and take a temporary salary reduction. These are challenging times and we are all in this together,” the Disney-owned sports-media giant said in a statement. Sports Business Journal previously disclosed the cuts.

The salary reductions are likely to affect the network’s highest-paid commentators, who include personalities like Stephen A. Smith and Mike Greenberg. ESPN is seeking cuts of 15%, and would encompass three months of pay cycles, according to a person familiar with the matter. Executives hope the pay cuts will tamp down a need for furloughs, and keep paychecks intact for lower-paid ESPN employees who don’t earn the types of salaries that the big-name personalities do.

ESPN’s...

ESPN’s latest sport has no rules, a flexible season and no championship game. Its only stars are the ones working behind the scenes.

The Disney-owned sports-media juggernaut finds itself in an impossible situation. The outlet spends millions to secure the rights to air hours and hours of live basketball, football, baseball, racing, boxing and mixed martial arts. In normal times, that’s a very successful business model. In a moment when the entire nation has been essentially sidelined, so too have the sports that ESPN depends upon so heavily. ESPN’s new game is to get people to keep watching even when the main thing they want to watch is not available.

“There are so many creative things we can do, similar to some of the initiatives we’ve done in the past for special event anniversaries, ‘The Ocho’ day and more,” says Burke Magnus, ESPN’s executive vice president,...

Executives at ESPN had high hopes in the Spring of 2018 when they launched a new morning program called “Get Up!” Within weeks, they were wondering whether they ought to put the show down.

The Disney-owned sports network saw the new program as a way to give viewers something other than another hour of its near-ubiquitous “SportsCenter,” and as a bid to offer colorful analysis and opinion in an era when sports facts and stats can be called up on a smart phone at a moment’s notice. The network even took up space in a waterfront studio in New York’s South Street Seaport; mounted cameras outside to get shots of the rolling surf; and set up little studio nooks where hosts and guests could hold one-on-one conversations. And then ESPN dispatched three top prospects – popular radio host Mike Greenberg; outspoken and unflappable Michelle Beadle; and former Indiana Pacer Jalen Rose...

Two and a half minutes of careening punk-metal bile, Binky Philips and the Planets’ “Splitsville for Bust” sounds like something that could have been heard blaring out of a downtown New York club in the early Seventies. And there’s a reason for that: It’s a new and inordinately hooky rocker from a band that started way back when but has finally, after 27 years, gotten around to making a record.

The original version of the Planets formed in 1972 and was soon after opening for the New York Dolls at...